“Fair and balanced”: What news audiences in four countries mean when they say they prefer impartial news

C Mont'Alverne, S Badrinathan… - Journalism …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Impartial news, or news without a partisan slant or overt point-of-view, is overwhelmingly
preferred by news audiences worldwide, yet what such preferences mean remains poorly …

Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research

D Garusi, S Splendore - Sociology compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The contemporary media environment represents the greatest challenge ever to journalism's
legitimacy. Surveys conducted in different parts of the world highlight a decline in trust in …

Imagined journalists: New framework for studying media–audiences relationship in populist times

A Panievsky, Y David, N Gidron… - … International Journal of …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
These are challenging times for journalists' relationship with their audiences. Attacks against
“the media” and the increasing weaponization of social media to harass journalists have …

“Everything is biased”: populist supporters' folk theories of journalism

C Juarez Miro - The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Populist supporters have a complex relationship with journalism (eg, embracing elites'
negative rhetoric, yet consuming news profusely). This study explores this relationship. The …

„Neutral vermitteln “oder „ermächtigend berichten “? Strukturelle Unterschiede von journalistischem Rollenselbstverständnis und bevölkerungsseitigen Erwartungen

L Sprengelmeyer, J Reimer, H Immler… - M&K Medien & …, 2022 - nomos-elibrary.de
In der Forschung zu journalistischen Rollen gewinnen in letzter Zeit „Beziehungsstudien “an
Bedeutung, die mithilfe von Journalist* innen-und Bevölkerungsbefragungen ermittelte …

“Or They Could Just Not Use It?”: The Dilemma of AI Disclosure for Audience Trust in News

B Toff, FM Simon - The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the production and distribution of
news has generated theoretical, normative, and practical concerns around the erosion of …

Show Me the Facts: Newsroom-Affiliated and Independent Fact-Checkers' Transparency Acts

S Seet, EC Tandoc Jr - Digital Journalism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In response to skepticism and criticisms of bias, fact-checkers attempt to be transparent in
their work, a practice adopted from their journalistic roots. This study identifies the acts of …

'Money is the root of all evil.'How the business of journalism shapes trust in news

JL Nelson, SC Lewis, B Cowley - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In journalism studies, the “audience turn” in recent years has shifted attention in important
ways to the lived experiences of news consumers. This study adds to the growing body of …

Distrust Profiles: Identifying the Factors That Shape Journalism's Credibility Crisis

TB Ksiazek, SJ Kim, JL Nelson, A Park… - Media and …, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
Trust in news is declining globally and has been for some time a phenomenon that has been
amplified in the context of a global pandemic, the rise in anti-media populism, and social …

Shifting the protest paradigm? Legitimizing and humanizing protest coverage lead to more positive attitudes toward protest, mixed results on news credibility

GM Masullo, DK Brown, S Harlow - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
A US experiment (n= 1506) demonstrated how a new approach to writing protest stories
challenges press patterns in the United States of underrepresented groups. News stories …